. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada. Evergreens; Conifers. ENUMERATION OF CONIFERS 239 stomatic bands, on the back with whitish depressions near the base: cones ^ inch across, the scales thickened, with a large acute process on back. 3. A. cupressoides, D. Don (A. imbricata, Maule. Cunninghamia cupressoides, Zucc). Tree reaching 40 feet, with ascending branches: leaves rhombic- ovate, broad and obtuse, with translucent denticu- late margin, H~K ^^'^^ long, thick and keeled, clo
. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada. Evergreens; Conifers. ENUMERATION OF CONIFERS 239 stomatic bands, on the back with whitish depressions near the base: cones ^ inch across, the scales thickened, with a large acute process on back. 3. A. cupressoides, D. Don (A. imbricata, Maule. Cunninghamia cupressoides, Zucc). Tree reaching 40 feet, with ascending branches: leaves rhombic- ovate, broad and obtuse, with translucent denticu- late margin, H~K ^^'^^ long, thick and keeled, closely appressed to the branches: cones f-/^ inch across, the scales rounded at top and bearing a tri- angular recurved process in the middle. 16. CRYPTOMERIA, D. Don. CRYPTOMERIA Evergreen pyramidal tree with a straight slender trunk covered with reddish-broTVTi bark, and with irregularly whorled spreading branches ascending at the extremities: leaves spirally arranged, linear- subulate, acute, slightly curved, decurrent at the base: flowers monoecious; staminate flowers axillary,, oblong, yellow, forming short racemes at the end of the branches; pistillate globular, solitary, at the end of short branchlets: cone globular, with thick, wedge-shaped scales, furnished with the recurved point of the adnate bract on the back and with pointed processes at the apex, each scale with 3-5 narrow-winged, erect seeds; cotyledons usually 3, rarely 2. (Name derived from Greek kryptos, hidden, and meros, part; meaning doubtful.)—Only one species is known. C. japonica, D. Don. Common C. Fig. 60. Tree attaining 125 feet in height; bark cinnamon-brown peeling off in long ribbon-like shreds: leaves linear-subulate, compressed and slightly 4- or 3-angled, bluntly keeled on the dorsal and sharply keeled on the ventral side, bluish-green, 3^-1 inch long: cone brownish- red, ^-1 inch across. In central and southern Japan and doubtfully native to China.—It is much planted in Japan and China as an o
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